Maso Rosa
Oil on canvas
£4,000
About the Artist
Philip Maltman's work relies largely on constantly generated subject matter from a wide cultural background that produces a number of discreet series where text, images, Art History and the natural world mix to create challenges for a contemporary response that will be unsentimental, and non-decorative but electrifying, painterly and invoking an inquisitive, if not passionate, recognition in the viewer. What you don’t see is often what you get. 'I had a great teacher in the 1960's up on the West Coast of Scotland as well as the Ayrshire coast itself. We listened to Thelonious Monk and Dave Brubeck and painted from Kandinsky, Klee and Pollock in the art rooms at secondary school. I was hooked. Now I revere James Joyce, Robert Motherwell, Cy Twombly and Don Van Vliet, all great painters in their own discreet ways.'
